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Nourishment for a plant embryo
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endosperm
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Wikipedia
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Endosperm is a tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants around the time of fertilization. It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch , though it can also contain oils and protein . This can make endosperm ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endosperm \En"do*sperm\, n. [Endo- + Gr. ? seed.] (Bot.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819, perhaps from German, from endo- + sperm .
Usage examples of endosperm.
The seeds themselves contain in the cotyledons and endosperm from 30 to 40 per cent of a fixed oil, of a light yellow colour, and about 25 per cent proteids, together with wax, resin, sugar, phosphates, acetic acid, and a small quantity of the glucoside Linamarin.
The nut contains a floury endosperm, and though rarely employed in this country as human food is extensively cultivated for that purpose in Northern Europe, North America (where it also goes by the name of Indian Wheat) and in India and the East.